Maintenance Technician (Temporary Full-time)

Career Group: Distribution Centre Careers
Job Category: Central Production
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Location: 5282 BC Central Kitchen
celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.
Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

This is an exciting opportunity that brings together the retail grocery sector and an enhanced culinary experience.The Maintenance Technician is responsible to perform preventative maintenance and repairs to Material Handling Equipment (MHE) and operate a refrigeration plant. The successful candidate will assist with repairs on all equipment throughout the site, actively contributes to a positive and productive working environment, ensure proper record keeping of site equipment, rack inspections, and conduct all battery maintenance and repairs.
Follow and maintain preventative maintenance schedule on all equipment and building.
Operation of Ammonia and Glycol Refrigeration Plant as per provincial regulations.
Understand Preventive Maintenance Programs such as Verisae, Capital Asset Tracking with Sobeys MSC (Maintenance Solution Center).
Perform necessary repairs and PM's on all equipment and building.
Maintain parts inventory and re-ordering replacement parts as needed.
Complete all daily inspections in a thorough and timely manner.
Maintain site battery fleet and chargers.
Daily inspection and record keeping of refrigeration system.
Daily inspection and record keeping of sprinkler systems.
Adhere to and implement all applicable Food Safety program requirements.
Perform necessary maintenance and repairs on all Sobeys property including MHE, batteries, equipment and building.
Refrigeration duties as per local Legislation if applicable.
All other duties as required to maintain the central kitchen.
Technical training and/or 3-years’ experience in maintenance and repair for various types of machinery, facility material handling, and refrigeration systems.

• Journeyman ticket in one of the building trades – e.g., Experience in general technical troubleshooting of building equipment and hands-on operating, diagnostics, and repair.
• Understand Preventive Maintenance Programs.
• Knowledge and experience of an Industrial Refrigeration System.
• Knowledge and experience of Sprinkler or Fire control system.
• Experience in a food manufacturing, warehouse, or production operations maintenance environment (preferred).
• Experience in any of industrial forklift and pallet jack repair and maintenance, industrial battery maintenance repair and maintenance, welding, or electrical repair (preferred).
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel for tracking and scheduling of maintenance of repairs.
• Experience in use of Hot Work Permits.
• Available to work overtime, evenings, weekends, and holidays.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure that you are paid fairly and competitively.

Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:
Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
Parental leave top-up
Paid Vacation and Days-off

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.